Improvement in wagon-tongue holders



0. F. BRYANT. Wagon Tongue Support.

Patented Oct. 5, 1869- A N. ETERS. PHDTO-LJTNOGRAPNER WASHIMTON D C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORLANDO I BRYANT, OF CARVER, MINNESOTA. r

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-TONGUE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 95,559, dated October 5, 1869.

- can be easily replaced without the aid of wagon and blacksmith shops, and saying the expense arising therefrom.

Figure 1 represents a side view of my wagon-tongue and holder; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same from one side; Fig. 3, a plan view from the other side; and Fig. 4, a side view of the strap which is attached to the end of the tongue.

A in the accompanying drawings represents the frame of the holder on which the tongue is supported. This frame consists of a metal casting tapering from front to rear, and is made of any suitable size, with a central and rear cross brace, (Z and f, as shown. This frame is provided with a projecting flange, g, on each side, and a rear flange, K. At the end of the two flanges g, at the front, is a rectangular socket, h, while at the center of the rear flange, K, is an oblong opening, I.

M M represent braces for the flanges g g.

a a represent bars to prevent the flanges g from wearing.

In the center of the cross-brace d is a metal loop, 0, in which to fasten the hammer-strap.

I represents an opening in the side of the frame A, through which the coupling-rod is passed.

X represents the wagon-tongue, which is suitably tapered, and which is passed through the socket 11., extending over the braces, and, being provided with a mortise, J, on its end, is passed into the opening in flange K on the rear end of the frame.

12, Fig. 4, represents the strap which protects the end of the tongue. This strap is made of wrought-iron, and in the form as shown, and provided with two screws, g and r. The screw g passes from the under side, and has a head which is long enough to act as a holdback-pin. The screw is to fasten the rear end of the strap. These screws may be reversed from the positions as seen in the drawings.

0 represents the pin which 1 when adjusted.

A wagon-tongue holder thus formed can be easily constructed at a small expense, and will be found effective and convenient for the purposes designed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the frame A'with flanges y K, socket h, braces cl f, loop 10, and tongue X, all constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ORLANDO F. BRYANT.

iolds the tongue Witnesses:

ANTON KNOBLAUOH, PETER THOMPSON. 

